If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.

You get attached to the way you write, and I'm attached to notebooks. That's where I really write the plays. Just two or three pages at a time, then I transfer to the typewriter and rewrite while I type.

There's no such thing as a sure thing. That's why they call it gambling.

I don't want to restrict the life of a play to a particular production. The original actors might leave after the first six months, and I want the play to last 30 or 40 years. You write for the character, not the actor on the stage.

Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.

I go to see plays all the time, and whenever I see Chekhov, I'm amazed at how this Russian play strikes home to me living 100 years later in New York City. I'm drawn to him because of his way with characters and their relationships with each other.

I don’t like writing for comedians. I like writing for actors. The best comedians are the best actors.